On Feb. 1, 1994, Warner Bros. Records released Green Day's Dookie, their first major-label album. It climbed to No. 2 on the charts and had five hit singles - "When I Come Around," "Basket Case," "Longview," "She" and "Welcome to Paradise."
Twenty years later, the trio of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool remains the same. They ushered in the post-punk era in the '90s with some wild live performance (the mud-throwing at Woodstock '94) and a string of popular albums, peaking in 2004 with American Idiot, which was adapted into a Broadway musical.
Here are 20 more albums released in 1994:
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beck - Mellow Gold
Black Crowes - Amorica
Blues Traveler - Four
DMB - Under the Table and Dreaming
Hole - Live Through This
Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear Mirror
Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy
Meat Puppets - Too HIgh to Die
Method Man - Tical
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Phish - Hoist
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Ween- Chocolate and Cheese
311 - Grassroots
